Wearables, Social Networking and Veracity: The Building Blocks of a Verified Exercise Application

Abstract

Research and development of exercise recognition applications have predominantly focused on motion related exercise, with not much emphasis on weight lifting exercise. At the same time, while such applications supports the posting of completed exercise session on social network, the veracity of the post is entirely determined by the user of the application. In this paper, we present the building blocks for a weight lifting application. It recognizes and counts the number of repetitions of a weight lifting exercise, and subsequently posts it on the user's behalf, thus ensuring the veracity of the post. Our empirical results demonstrate the potential of such an application.